I'm all about leaving politics out of Ai, but this comparison between DeepSeek and another popular chatbot like Claude is extremely interesting.
When asked about Israel and Gaza, DeepSeek (Chinese owner) spends 10 seconds reasoning on how to "carefully" approach this "sensitive and complex issue".
It delivers a long and thorough answer, outlining both the Israel and Palestinian's perspective, the broader context and international concerns.
Claude (American owner) gives a factually correct, although short answer.
When asked about Tiananmen Square, a sensitive event in Chinese history, DeepSeek prefers not to answer, inviting me to discuss "math, coding, and logic problems, instead."
Fair enough, I'd also rather discuss those topics 😅.
On the other hand, this time Claude gives a more comprehensive answer.
Couple of takeaways:
-> It's amazing to watch DeepSeek R1 model reasoning in real time before delivering a final answer.
That's exactly what humans should do! (and often don't 😅)
-> Biases are inevitable.
This is true for humans and therefore also for machines.
Plus, even non-Ai tech products we use regularly, including the one I'm posting on right now, have biases, naturally embedded in their algorithms.
I think this is not a good reason not to use a tech product.
However, it is a good reason to learn how to use it more consciously.
